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On Mon 08 Sep 2003 13:10, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > Now I realize that this was probably caused by the fact that somehow > > either the installed Config.pm or libperl was queried. Not sure > > whether this is a bug or a feature ;-( > > It's querying Config.pm as found in @INC. If you're running from an > uninstalled perl you have to remember to do things like ./perl -Ilib -V > > > However, Config.pm is rather heavy, so I'd like to prevent that being loaded. > > I think that I had trying to make Config.pm less heavy in my TODO. And it's probably still faster than spawning a second perl (which is likely to use Config anyway) > as a start, I was considering surveying which values in %Config are > popular, to try to partition those from the vast majority, which are > deadweight in nearly every program. As %Config is a tied hash, I believe > that it can all be done transparently. > > Nicholas Clark -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0, & 5.9.x, and 806 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 8.2, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/daily-build@perl.org/ perl-qa@perl.org send smoke reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.orgThread Previous | Thread Next